WHAT IS AG
CAREER EXPLORATION
The third step of a Farm Camp Experience is career exploration. Students will connect their experiences of the farm or agribusiness tour with a future career in agriculture. As the future workforce, our goal at Farm Camp Minnesota is to educate about the many ag career opportunities beyond those that get your hands dirty.
MN DEPARTMENT OF ED
CAREER & COLLEGE SUCCESS
Minnesota Department of Education has Career and College Success recommendations to schools kindergarten through 12th grade. One resource that is available is the Career and College Success website and resources. Fortunately, there are many resources available to educators to implement these new standards into their classrooms–many of which are listed below.
| Competency | Definition |
|---|---|
| Career Awareness | Students have early exposure to career options, jobs and occupations. |
| Career Exploration | Students dive into specifuc career options and learn about career fields, clusters, and pathways and how they align with their unique preferences, developmental level, skills, interests, and values to be better prepared to make choices regarding career and education pathways. |
| Career Preparation | Students enroll in pathway specific courses that explicitly tie the knowledge and skills learned to those necessary for future careers of interest. Courses and curriculum are aligned and structured to provide seamless progression of study in a student-chosen and education pathway.
Students enroll in rigorous courses to earn industry credentials and post secondary credits. These education and work place experiences allow students to gain hands-on skills and knowledge using industry-validated curricula to earn postsecondary credits and industry certifications. This can also include the option to earn credits in rigorous core academic courses and career technical education courses taught by certified teachers. |
Minnesota Career Awareness, Exploration and Preparation Standards
Minnesota Ag in the Classroom Resources
Throughout the Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom website, there are many lesson plans and companion resources for career exploration. If you need guidance to which resource(s) best align to your Farm Camp experience, please contact the Farm Camp Minnesota director.
Students consider the scope of agriculture and how it is the source of most of our day-to-day necessities in preparation to explore the five agricultural career pathways.
Through project-based learning, students will design games that will assist others with identifying a variety of agricultural careers, possible emerging agricultural careers, the education required for agricultural career options, and the salaries that can be expected in each career.
Students will explore careers in the fields of agriculture and natural resources through online research. They will check their understanding by playing Career Trek—a board game that requires students to identify careers in agriculture and natural resources.
Students will use infographics and charts to explore the careers that produce food, clothing, shelter, and fuel along with a variety of agricultural STEM careers requiring critical thinkers and problem solvers.
Learn more about the MAITC Charting Agricultural Careers Lesson Plan.
Students discover the variety of agricultural careers available and consider their future career paths in terms of economics, interests, and suitability to their personal talents and characteristics.
Learn more about the MAITC Find Your Future Career Plan Lesson Plans.
Students will recognize the importance of fuel energy and the fact that agriculture can produce biofuel; students will identify career opportunities in the biofuel industry.
Learn more about the MAITC Fuelling Up for a Career in Biofuel Lesson Plan.
Students will explore technical careers in agriculture and learn how GPS and GIS technologies are used to improve agricultural production.
Learn more about the MAITC GPS and GIS Technology in Agriculture.
Students will discover potential careers in agriculture with a focus on the growing field of biofuel development.
Learn more about the MAITC Grow It Now, Drive It Later? Lesson Plan.
Students will explore careers related to agriculture, identify personal interests within agriculture or a related field and discuss how agricultural professionals can impact world food.
A secondary level e-book designed as a guide for students and young people considering their career opportunities by presenting them with a current, in-depth, thorough, and real view of the agricultural industry. Each page is equipped with interactive links to videos, further reading, and more.
Learn more about the Careers in Agriculture companion resource.
This collection of 40 short videos highlights a wide variety of careers in agriculture and natural resources. Each video is one to four minutes long and features an interview with a professional working in an agricultural field. Give your students time to explore these videos on their own or select a few to show in class. Allow students to hear directly from a plant scientist, a cheese production manager, an algae farmer, or a GIS specialist and learn how these professionals chose the career paths that got them where they are today.
Explore more than 20 agriculture-related careers with these "snapshot" videos. The video playlist features careers on the farm as well as many others in sales, technology, education, and more.
This website, put together by a partnership of agricultural organizations in Pennsylvania, has agricultural career resources that are applicable to all states. See over 50 careers in agriculture through videos, and infographics on the Ag & Food Careers List. Additionally, there is an Educator Resource section that includes 4 web scavenger hunts to guide students through the videos.
Students interested in a plant science career can use this website to find information on specialized career paths in the fields of agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Discover the demand for nursery and greenhouse workers, horticulturists, florists, flower specialists, and more.
Explore science-related career paths such as those available at Corteva Agriscience. Explore career-path PDFs and career videos.
AgExplorer is a comprehensive career resource to help you explore the broad range of careers within the industry of agriculture. Careers may have you using advanced equipment, creating new hybrid seeds, raising animals, managing people, or designing new products and packaging. The industry of agriculture can open up a world of possibilities, and the demand for professionals in every agricultural area is high. Learn more about which career might be right for you by watching the videos, exploring the career pages, and completing the Career Finder interactive.
Career Videos
Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation teamed up with Lakeland PBS (LPBS) to created a 30-minute documentary and career short videos. These provide students and educators the opportunity to learn more about the variety of career opportunities within agriculture.
Minnesota State
Career Resources
Minnesota State consists of 26 colleges and 7 universities with 54 campuses throughout the state of Minnesota. They have gathered resources to aid in understanding the breadth of agricultural careers.
AgCareers.com Resources
AgCareers.com is an exceptional source to explore careers close to home or across the country. They provide up-to-date career descriptions and information on what experiences and education is required for the diverse careers in agriculture.
The purpose of the guide is career education and connecting people to the varied and numerous career in the agriculture and food industries. The Ag & Food Career Guide is a supplemental piece developed to be a resource guide for students and young professionals to compare businesses within the agriculture and food industry and their opportunities for internships and employment. The piece also contains a variety of helpful articles to help add shelf-life to the piece, and truly help the piece act as a guide for students as they go about their career search.
Check out the Ag and Food Career Guide.
The industry of agriculture can open up a world of possibilities, and the demand for professionals in every agricultural area is high. Learn more about which career may be right for you by completing the Career Finder interactive.
Check out the Ag Explorer Career Finder.
A collection of helpful content and resources that AgCareers.com has developed to help job seekers along their journey! Whether you are a student just starting or an experienced professional, AgCareers.com’s Career Success Library has the tools to help you find success. The Career Success Library is organized into six categories.
Check out the Career Success Library.
The AgCareers.com Career Profiles were created as a resource to increase learning and understanding around the great variety of opportunities in agriculture and food. To browse our more than 250 Career Profiles, select a pathway of interest to you. Then locate a Career Profile title you would like to read more about. Each Career Profile contains an overview, job responsibilities, required education, recommended high school courses, potential employers, job outlook, and professional organizations to join. There are also current career opportunities live on AgCareers.com related to each Career Profile at the bottom of their respective pages.
Check out the Career Profiles.
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The combination of agriculture and food employers, associations, and educational professionals provides a unique and rewarding experience found nowhere else. Learn from talented presenters about the latest trends in agriculture & food jobs, career preparedness, human resources, recruiting, internships and more.
Search for jobs anywhere worldwide within the Cargill organization.
AgCentric Wheel
1 in 10 jobs in Minnesota are in Agriculture. Explore a future career in agriculture, food, & natural resources (AFNR)! Learn about the eight different pathways shared in the AgCentric Wheel.
Career Overviews
The FarmingWork.com website features thousands of agriculture jobs across the United States each month. Discover the different career overviews that digs into responsibilities and what these different positions do.
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